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Yr 7 parents evening-'banned' seeing teacher!

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Syrupent · 14/03/2008 11:55

DS2s first parents eve in secondary school is coming up. The science teacher has told half the class (including DS2) that they are doing OK, so he doesn't want to see their parents. Is this normal practice? As he is doing OK in all other subjects (except one & that teacher is ill) perhaps I should't bother to go along at all?? I was quite looking foreward to seeing what they say, especially being a new school.

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PrimulaVeris · 14/03/2008 13:09

Just had my first Y7 parents evening this week and this issue came up - some teachers said they expected to see parents, some said not to bother.

We decided to go just with core subjects - english, maths science and mfl - but some parents made appointments to see every single teacher and were there for the full 2 hours.

Our DD doing absolutely fine, but nice to hear it from horses mouth and actually (for us) put faces to teachers names. I thought they were all fab.

Lots of worn out faces at end of night though!

Blandmum · 14/03/2008 12:09

We have a general practice of making priority appointments to see parents if there are issues that we feel need addressing. If we feel that the child is on target we don't activly seak a meeting. If parents want to make an appointment they can, for whatever reason.But if the child is doing well I don't feel that I need to see the parents IYSWIM

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